Creating A/B tests is a lot of fun, and the excitement is compounded by the value your company can get out of a successful testing program. Our team gets to work on a lot of A/B tests across multiple tools and multiple web stacks. Which means that we’ve seen a few cases where things can go sideways… One of the tools that we use is VWO. We use it to build everything from simple A/B tests to multivariate tests. They have great resources available for beginners and advanced users, but if you have any questions feel free to leave us a note in the comments :). Building tests for static sites is fairly simple using their platform. If you’re trying to run tests behind authentication, we use a few tricks – like applying classes on the body element and conditionally hiding elements based on the authentication state. Most recently we were working on some tests in VWO for Forks Over Knives, the organization behind the award winning Forks Over Knives documentary launched in 2011, and ran into some interesting issues. One of their products, the ForksMealsPlanner.com uses Angular. AngularJS is a framework backed by Google and used by thousands of developers. It’s known for it’s dependency injection and follows the MVW methodology.
3 Things to watch out for when AB testing an AngularJS app
Creating A/B tests is a lot of fun, and the excitement is compounded by the value your company can get out of a successful testing program. Our team gets to work on a lot of A/B tests across multiple tools and multiple web stacks. Which means that we’ve seen a few cases where things can go sideways… One of the tools that we use is VWO. We use it to build everything from simple A/B tests to multivariate tests. They have great resources available for beginners and advanced users, but if you have any questions feel free to leave us a note in the comments :). Building tests for static sites is fairly simple using their platform. If you’re trying to run tests behind authentication, we use a few tricks – like applying classes on the body element and conditionally hiding elements based on the authentication state. Most recently we were working on some tests in VWO for Forks Over Knives, the organization behind the award winning Forks Over Knives documentary launched in 2011, and ran into some interesting issues. One of their products, the ForksMealsPlanner.com uses Angular. AngularJS is a framework backed by Google and used by thousands of developers. It’s known for it’s dependency injection and follows the MVW methodology.
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